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Russia getting absolutely tbagged in real time
Go back to your fantasy about hoards of orcs being slaughtered by the noble innocent hobbits while the rest of us discuss reality
Oh wait, that's how you see reality because that's how fucking deranged you are
ableism lol
give your Ghost of Kiev funko-pop a big hug
Getting "absolutely tbagged in real time" is when you slowly take more and more of your enemies land while they force retirees to charge into your artillery fire in "counteroffensives" that are completely unsuccessful in taking back that land, right?
What is it like being this delusional?
This guy fell right into my trap and is hurting his knuckles on my chin
Lmfao a honey badger is trashing a grizzly and all y'all can do is praise the bear's strength because you haven't seen a w in decades
500,000 Ukrainian losses to 40,000 Russian losses
10:1 artillery shell advantage for Russia
Russia has air superiority and freely bombs the other side with FABs. Ukraine has no response.
Russia pushing and advancing on all fronts
Eh, i feel like we cant throw numbers of casualties around considering there is just no way of knowing the real figures. Although i feel the west certainly isnt truthfull about it, russia isnt either.
Just know that for libs like the one you are responding to, there cant be enough blood spilled on the altar of nato and western imperialism. Pretty sure that fucker is willing to sacrifice an entire nation of people for his peaceful ideals
ok tankie lol drink your lies bro
Was the seizure of Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Mariupol all lies?
Is it a lie that the Ukrainian counteroffensive only took 2 minor villages which have since both been lost? That was an entire year+ worth of western prep and build up.
500k vs 40k?
Yeah you're delirious lmfao unless you're also stupid and count civilian deaths and Russian terrorism as kills but whatever helps your propaganda go down smooth
500k Ukrainian soldiers
delusional
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/politics/ukraine-russia-war-casualties.html
Even US officials believe it was somewhere around that point in 2023.
Since then the war has taken a turn for the worse for Ukraine, and new fronts have opened.
It's you who are deluded, even the sycophant propagandist liars on your side of the war aren't as deluded as you
lol
y'all tankies always do this. don't even check your own sources 🥱
Yeah the US government is not an accurate source of info since we control Ukraine. Lol @ Russia's casualties dwarfing Ukraine's. Batshit insane. They should have made up plausible figures.
wow
delete your comment ig
Russia has full air superiority. What the fuck did you think would happen? Ukraine's most hardcore Nazi's have died already. The people that are left don't want to fight. They're kidnapping them, holding them for a few days and directly throwing them into ditches to die. It's a depopulation strategy.
EU and the US are incredibly weak. The Houthis and North Korea literally have better missile technology than the US and EU combined.
what the fuck are you smoking
dude copeing so hard he became a bear ig????
I'm sure the young and old Ukrainians who are getting dragged off the street into trenches only to be obliterated by artillery are grateful for your service repeating nato propaganda so even more of them can be dragged into said trench.